Litecoin Network Recovers from Denial-of-Service Attack by Reorganizing 13 Blocks
On Friday and Saturday, a chain reorganization of 13 blocks occurred on the Litecoin network, effectively rewinding 32 minutes of network activity after attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Mimblewimble Extension Block protocol. The bug allowed for a denial-of-service attack against major mining pools, enabling invalid transactions to bypass nodes that had not been updated. However, the net…
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.